Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-03-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Good fertilizers for grapes are
bore meal and potash.

capital ration for dairy COWS.
II You want the Cow OF milk to
keep up always milk clean.
Tomatoes may be trained to
poles, so rs to grow six feet high. |
The proper weight for turkey |
for the table is said by Old market |
men TIC be eight pounds.
Trees may be protected from
meadow mice by banking up with
mound Of earta 9 foot high.
The soaking Of fence posts in
blue yitriol is certified to be the
best preparation for preserving
them.
Know by test and not by guess
which is the most profitable COW
in your herd, ana why she is the
best.
The hogs which breed well and
are popular in tho market are the
kinds farmers should Try to raise.
It's an injury to cream to suffer
it to rise whore the surface of it is
exposed freely to sir much warmer
than itself.
Dropping ears, lowing, hanging
head, diarrhhoea, vomiting, rapid
breath and aversion to light are
symptoms that point to hog
cholera.
The "Ame~:can Agricplturist'
curtly remarks: The poorest ensi-
lage we have ever seen has been in
the silos OF agricultural colleges.
The american Garden" says:
'Most nuts viii not sprout after
they become thoroughly dry and
should, therefore. be planted as
soon IS ripe.
& farmer who understands his
business says: Land properly pre-
pared and the crop managed to
the best advantage is somewhat
independent of rain after it has
got its FIRST start.
The 100 points which critics
have assigned 10 butter are thus
made up; favor, twenty-five; keep
ins qualities, twenty; texture,
twentT five; color, fifteen; appear
ance fifteen.
According to Benz. P. Ware, en-
inent authority upon fruit culture,
the very high cultivation of the
orchard, year after ear viii great
ly increase crops but materially
shorten the life Of the trees.
Pigs not intended for slaughter
will not require corn if
kept well sheltered. Ground oats
and middlings make better food
for them, and viii keep them grow
ing until the pasture is ready in
the spring.
The National Stockman' assigns
the following properties to the
prize butter-maker: Clean mouth,
sweet breath, clean cloths. clean
apron, honesty, neatness, sweet
ness, observation-disclosures and ability
to keep accounts.
In preparing food for stock,
such as cooked vegetables, chop
ped feed, etc. always season with
salt. Every animal Graves it,
and must have q certain amount of
saline matter introduced into its
system to enable it to thrive.
There is large field open for
those who viii make a specially OF
flax. It is a quick-g1owing crop;
is as easily grown as wheat, and
improved machinery has made il
more easily fitted for market. II
gives a profit in both straw and
seed.
4 French cultivator gives his
method of increasing the numbc,
of potato tubers: When the young
stems have attained about foul
inches in height, all of them ex.
cepting two of the central ones
are cut away, and the two only al.
lowed to grow.
In no other country in the world
are the feathers of the barnyard
fowls SO recklessly wasted as in
our own. In France no part is
wasted, unless, perhaps, it be the
intestines. The feet and heads
are used at the cheaper restaurants
to give body to their soups, etc.
1t is well to remember that but
Ter held for any great length OF
time shrinks considerably in
weight. A consignment of 3.32S
pounds sent to New York by an
Illinois creamery shrunk fifty
pounds in a fortnightwhiIe a lot Of
6,104 pounds sold in ten weeks
chnmnd n rhri1 Iarrn Of III 1nn,,ndc